[Zope-CMF] Re: New How-To: how-to modify discussions in CMF (was: Re: [Zope-CMF]

[Norbert Marrale]

Nice how-to, but one thing scares me:

If you allow anonymous users to set their own handle, they could 
attempt to impersonate registered members (yikes!) unless you make 
sure that the chosen handle is not already in use by a legitimate 
member of the community or mark the handle as "anon". (this is one of 
the reasons I would like to be able to display the role of a document's 
owner, see other thread)

Funny, how we're all trying to customize the CMF in similar ways: I also 
made replying to existing threads available to anon users. Moderators 
are always able to retract irrelevant messages and other junk. I have 
tweaked the showThreads and viewThreadsAtBottom skin to mark any 
private messages when viewed by a moderator (it skips those for 
members and anons) and converted the aboveInThread script to a skin 
which displays only the relevant (published) parents. I'm not ready to 
customize the CMF source yet :) By adding the edit action to the 
"Discussion Item" portal type, you can let your moderators edit for 
clarity... 

I'm now working on a way to display a list of recent discussion items on 
the portal homepage in a way that the workflow status of all items in 
parentsInThread is considered in addition to the status of the most 
recent post. -- This should effectively hide any orphan threads...

http://www.attira.net/home/Members/Tiara/message_1

If you think the customized skins would fit in with the how-to, please 
drop me a line. 

Norbert



> Message: 15
> To: Pieter Claerhout <Pieter_Claerhout@CreoScitex.com>
> Cc: "'zope-cmf@zope.org'" <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> Subject: New How-To: how-to modify discussions in CMF (was: Re: [Zope-CMF]
> Discussion Items in Zope CMF) From: Erik Enge <erik@thingamy.net>
> Organization: Thingamy Ltd. <URL:http://www.thingamy.com/> Date: 10 Aug
> 2001 15:08:25 +0200
> 
> [Pieter Claerhout]
> 
> | How you enable the DiscussionItems?
> 
> This is a slightly-often-asked (is that actually a word?) question,
> isn't it?  I just created a How-To that tells you how to:
> 
>         - enable content to be discussable
> 
>         - add arguments to comments
> 
>         - administrate "talkbacks"
> 
> <URL:http://www.zope.org/Members/eenge/cmf-discussions>
> 
> As always, comments are appretiated.  :-)
> 
> 


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Norbert Marrale
norbert@infocatch.com